
Karel AppelDutch, 1921–2006May one see it?
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.
1955
“Child and Beast II” in MoMA's “The New Decade”
His painting “Child and Beast II” (1951) was included in the influential Museum of Modern Art exhibition “The New Decade”, which featured twenty-two European painters and sculptors, among them newcomers such as Francis Bacon, Jean Dubuffet and Pierre Soulages.
1959
Grand Prize at the São Paulo Biennial
Appel received the Grand Prize at the São Paulo Biennial.
11 July 1959 – 11 October 1959
Exhibition: Documenta II